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As it stated in on June 27, 2012, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, playing golf in Yamanakako village, west of Tokyo, on July 23, 2016. You get to know somebody better on a golf course than you will over lunch.” Abe and Trump hold talks in Washington, D.C., on Friday before flying to the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are smarting from phone calls with Trump. Abe, who departs Thursday, has moved quickly since the U.S. election to try to win Trump over.

as informed in U.S. President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Abe will form a twosome for their round of golf on Saturday, presumably at the Trump International Golf Club near his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERSJapan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plays golf in Fujikawaguchiko town, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 16, 2015. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERSJapan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) plays golf with his friends during his summer break in Yamanakako town, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 11, 2016. “He is pretty remarkable for a 70-year-old guy,” Jaime Diaz, editor-in-chief of Golf World and a senior writer for Golf Digest, told Reuters. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) plays golf with Fujio Mitarai (C), former chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Sadayuki Sakakibara, current chairman, in Chigasaki, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo January 3, 2015.

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Can golf diplomacy help Abe score win-win on trade and defense?

If there’s one thing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have in common, it’s their affinity for golf. However, a Defense Ministry official said Trump could still demand an increase in Japan’s overall defense budget, if not host nation support itself. During talks starting in Washington on Friday, Abe is set to use a round of golf with Trump to cement economic ties and allay the president’s criticism of Japan’s trade policies. But a recent report on the U.S. trade deficit in goods with Japan could deal a blow to that claim. Although Abe has pledged to stick with the 12-nation trade pact, he has implied that Tokyo might be open to a bilateral trade deal with the U.S. instead.